Ask HN: What are you learning?

Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? by Areading314 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @09:47PM (#22790253)

Learning to draw is something anyone can do and is incredibly rewarding. It activates a huge part of your brain (visual) that starts firing when you see all sorts of scenes, faces, patterns, colors in real life. Try the book "drawing on the right side of the brain". Another good one is the Bargue sculpture drawing course.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? by throw1234651234 on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:44PM (#22795249)

Yea, right, until you try to get perspective correct.

If you understand this, you are a genius:

https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/3316/how-to-measu...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? by Areading314 on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @01:44AM (#22800606)

Don't worry about perspective drawing. This is a much more technical subject, separate from the skill of "drawing what you see".

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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? by throw1234651234 on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @08:44AM (#22802637)

I want to be able to draw from imagination. Drawing from real life has no appeal to me (though drawing realistically does).

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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? by tingol on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:58PM (#22834909)

Any artist that draws from imagination will tell you to draw from real life. Once you get that down it's waaaay easier since you have strong foundations in figures, perspective and forms. No one just started drawing from imagination.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? by enhdless on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:15AM (#22791502)

Thanks for your recommendations!

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